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10,000 years ago
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Predicted that exponential population growth would outpace linear food production, leading to starvation.
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He was the creator of the Sierra Club and inspired many people to start caring about the environment more.
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This book was published in 1854 by Henry David Thoreau. He talks about how he lived in a wood cabin by Walden lake for over 2 years.
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This provided settlers 160 acres of land from the government. After 6 months on the, you could buy the land from the government for $1.25 or live on it for 5 years and get it free.
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The American Forestry Association, as said on their website, "are people who care about - and for - forests." They've planted over 40 million trees since their creation.
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This act repealed the Timber Culteure and Preemption Act whil also letting the President to reserver forest land.
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What the Sierra Club does is summed up in their mission statement: "to explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; to practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; to educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment; and to use all lawful means to carry out those objectives."
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This Act was made to help protect a wider variety of plants and plant products. It later made it illegal to import certain plants or plant products after 2008 without permission from the government.
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Theodore Roosevelt 1901-1909
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This organization was formed to help regulate and protect national forests in the US.
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He was the leader of the US Forest service for 5 years until he was fired in 1910.
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He wrote a book called A Sand County Almanac, describing the land in Wisconsin and supporting responsible relationships between humans and ecosystems.
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This society's mission is "To conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity".
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Theodore Roosevelt signed this into law, which states that the President can limit the use of public land that the government owns.
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This was a public program that ran until 1942 to help unemployed workers find unskilled jobs that helped the environment.
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This organization was originally created to protect good soil, but was renamed the National Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to protect all natural resources in the nation.
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This act was signed by President Roosevelt to help prevent overgrazing and soil degradation and improve grazing processes for animals.
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This originally made it so duck hunters over 16 had to pay a dollar for a stamp so they were authorized to hunt, granted that they already had a state hunting license.
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"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mission is, working with others, to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people."
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She studied chimpanzees in Tanzania for over 45 years, learning about how they interact and their similarity to humans. She is known as an expert on chimpanzees.
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This book is know for starting the environmental movement. It influenced people to do many things; from banning DDT, to making new environmental policies.
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This was written by the leader of The Wilerness Society, Howard Zahniser, and signed by Lyndon B. Johnson. This act helped protect almost 10 million acres of land.
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This gave Congress power to preserve various rivers around the country based on their value recreationally, environmentally, etc.
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This river was once the most polluted river in the US. It caught fire 13 times and was so polluted in some places that no fish lived in it.
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This required all federal agencies to consider possible environmental risks that could occur from their proposed actions.
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1969-1974
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There was a lot of smog in many cities around the US, so during the environmental movement, Congress passed this act to improve the air quality around the US.
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This helped the government control the use, sale, and distribution of many pesticides.
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Multiple countries in the Middle East attacked Israel, so we tried to assist Israel. Because we tried to help them, the Middle Eastern countries responsible retaliated with an oil embargo.
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This act helps the governement regulate the disposal of solid and hazarduos waste.
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This act helped reduce the amount of pullution being dumped into water and made standards for water quality.
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SMCRA regulated coal mining to help reduce and prevent some effect on the environment.
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A company buried its waste in an area and later sold it to a local school board for only a dollar, but after building a school and the students getting sick, they realized the waste was leaking from the ground. Lois Gibbs was a mother that influenced many parents to rally against the company, but according to the contract they signed with the school board, they were not liable for any thing that happened.
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Small amounts of radioactive gas were released when the cooling system in one of the nuclear plants failed and caused a partial meltdown.
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President Jimmy Carter signed this into law, protecting over 100 million acres of land in Alaska.
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This put a tax on various chemical and petroleum companies. The money collected from the tax was used to clean abandoned waste sites.
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1981-1989
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A gas leak of methyl isocyanate exposed over 500,000 to the harmful chemical, killing over 20,000.
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Known as the worst nuclear accident in history, reactor 3 in the plant exploded, spreading radioactive particles all over what would have been western USSR.
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This was an international treaty designed to help protect the ozone layer so it could recover by 2050.
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This was an oil tanker that spilt hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the ocen after it ran aground.
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This act addressed multiple concerns about energy effeciency, management, and conservation related to natural resorces and renewable resources.
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The Death Valley and Joshu Tree National parks were created when this was approaved by Congress and signed by Bill Clinton.
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1997-2005
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